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APRIL / MAY 2024 | CONTENTS
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COVER STORY
12 Redefining Commuter and Shuttle Bus Seating : Kiel Americas Sets a Standard
In North America , Kiel Americas has a new focus on seats for the cutaway bus market – including shuttles for hotels , airports , car rentals , employee travel and even prison buses , as well as commuter , transit , paratransit / on-demand transit and motorcoach applications
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15 National Trails Continues Growth , Streamlines Charters with busHive
In the last three years alone , the company has more than tripled the number of employees , doubled its school bus fleet and increased its motorcoach fleet size by 15
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16 South Carolina ’ s Greenlink Manages ITS with EQUANS
EQUANS ’ s ITS and CAD / AVL suite has been designed specifically for public transit operators whose personnel work with real-time transportation management tools to ensure and improve communication between fleet and drivers
18 Optimizing Accessibility at Your Paratransit Operation
Experts from Frontrunner Bus and Q ’ STRAINT weigh in on how they ’ re helping agencies optimize access to transportation
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20 How FAX Implemented a State-ofthe-Art CAD / AVL System
By working closely with Vontas , Fresno Area Express ( FAX ) successfully implemented a CAD / AVL solution that met the needs of their ridership , providing them with new capabilities that were not possible with their legacy hardware
21 BUSRide Maintenance Vol . 14 , No . 2
The April / May edition of BUSRide Maintenance , the exclusive maintenance resource for the transit and motorcoach industries
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6 From The Editor By Richard G Tackett
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